There was one among the numerous men of science with whom Palissy associated who narrowly escaped destruction.
— from Palissy the Huguenot Potter: A True Tale by C. L. (Cecilia Lucy) Brightwell

[59] Such is the fate of those who keep their sins with their profession, and will not encounter difficulty in cutting them off.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

But Pan Andrei was not easily discouraged when once he undertook a thing.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Science cannot prove, and will not even discuss, either suggestion: she confines herself to the assertion that, as a matter of careful and exact observation, B does follow A. Whether we call A an efficient cause or not, matters not to science: call it so or refuse to call it so, the fact once established by science, that B follows A, remains.
— from Evolution by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

The ostler had explained their intrusion, and veiled their character under the vague epithet of a “hunting party,” and was now evidently describing them personally.
— from Snow-Bound at Eagle's by Bret Harte

On the other hand, science emphatically declares man to have existed on the earth for a far more extended period, affirms that as far as we can trace man historically, we find him in isolated groups, diverse in type, till we lose him in the ante-historic period; and with nearly equal distinctness denies that the various existing races find their common parentage in one pair.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh